Featured Speaker: Healing Through Writing: A Book Talk with Astronaut Amanda Nguyen

Mar 7, 2025

2:30pm – 3:30pm CT

Join Astronaut and Activist Amanda Nguyen as she talks about her memoir, Saving Five, a story about writing groundbreaking civil rights laws after putting her dreams to go to space on hold. TIME Woman of the Year, Amanda Nguyen, discusses how to write a memoir, how to write a law, and how she’s flying to space.

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